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InnOviate competition winners announced!

Published
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niini
on November 27, 2009
in Just For Fun, Ovi by Nokia and Promotions
. 3 Comments

We asked you to do something innOviative (see what I did there?) with apps available on Store and boy did you guys deliver! That’s right: the long-awaited InnOviate competition winners have been announced, and here they are! Drumrolls, please.

The winner is Timothy Jeffcoat who mixed the Strobe Touch app on his Nokia 5800 XpressMusic with some big balloons and some even bigger beats to create a cool coloured light show. Simple but effective, eh?

Timothy wins a Nokia N900 and a Nokia N97 mini.

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Our runner-up Tanapruk Tangphianphan took the Nokia Handwriting Calculator app and added a TV using a video-out cable. The result? An improvised maths tutorial, complete with an interactive whiteboard to capture and display calculations.

Tanapruk wins a Nokia N97.

Our other runner-up, Sergio Silva came up with an ingenious treasure hunt that brought in a whole collection of apps, including SMS Preview, Ovi Maps, UpCode, Nokia Magnifier, and YouTube.

Sergio wins a Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-905.

Congratulations to all our winners and a big thank you to everyone who submitted their work!

Jane Austen on women, writing and Ovi

Published
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niini
on November 25, 2009
in Contacts, Just For Fun and Ovi by Nokia
. 5 Comments

That’s right, it’s historical Ovi tweet time again! This week the much-loved Jane Austen is on Twitter, discussing women, writing and Ovi (and book agents?). Take it away, Jane!

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P.S. It’s not a coincidence we chose to feature such a remarkable feminist hero today, on November 25th; after all, today is the international White Ribbon day (read more here, here and here)!

It’s Fan Tweet time, y’all!

Published
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niini
on November 6, 2009
in Just For Fun and Ovi by Nokia
. 7 Comments

We here at Ovi love our fans. And they love our Historical Ovi Tweets! A couple of weeks back we started hearing rumors that there are “fan tweets” going around the interwebs, and whaddyaknow: the rumors were true!

We also found out that we are apparently quite famous in the Philippine blogosphere, as an organization called the Pinoy Expat Blog Awards (PEBA) has not only made an Ovi by Nokia promo video (we’ll post that as well here soon!), but launched an entire Historical Ovi Tweets competition! We here at Historical Ovi Tweets HQ (i.e. my couch) have watched new Ovi fan tweets pop up almost daily for the past couple of weeks, and we figured it’s only right we post some of them here, as they just look so cool!

So, let’s get started!

The first one is from artemis070829 who sent this one directly to us. It features the noted chessmaster Emanuel Lasker (and his nemesis Wilhelm Steinitz), and we just thought it was hilarious :) Thanks, artemis070829, your tweet will be made into a T-shirt and shipped to you shortly!!

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The next one is actually made by yours truly, but it was featured at HistoricalTweets.com a while back, and a commentor by the name of Anusha made such a great suggestion for an alternative text that we just had to feature it here:

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Love it! Then we have the PEBA bloggers as well. Since it was sort of a competition, we chose the winner (which, by the way, was so hard since the tweets were all so friggin’ good!) and it is….

The superb Cyrano de Bergerac tweet (click!!) from NEBZ of Isla de Nebz! Congrats, NEBZ! Your tweet will also be made into a T-shirt and sent to you!

Another fantastic fan tweet comes from Reymos of “My World is Getting Smaller Every Day” in the form of Michelangelo’s David (click!!), who came in second and will also get his tweet made into a T-shirt (congrats, Reymos!).

Other cool fan art comes from AZEL of Panunumbalik ng Ulirat in the form of David and Aphrodite (click!!)…

The super funny “Scream” tweet (click!!) from the Pope of Palipasan…

…and Lady Liberty’s tweet (click!!) from the DETH of Minddeth!

We would just like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who made and submitted their tweets!! Have YOU already sent us your own Historical Ovi Tweet? ;)

A couple of more days left on InnOviate competition!

Published
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niini
on November 4, 2009
in Ovi by Nokia and Promotions
. 4 Comments

InnOviate

Have you already submitted your potentially prize-winning entry to the InnOviate competition? If not, then get on it STAT! If you don’t yet know what this InnOviate thing is all about, here’s a quick lowdown:

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So basically we want you to grab a friend to hold the camera (or whatever needs holding), make a video, photo, recording, blog post etc. on you using (or misusing!) an app, ringtone, wallpaper or anything you can find in Store in an innovative way and submit your entry here.

You have until Friday November 6th 2009, so be quick! The prizes for the winning entry are pretty good too… you get to choose two items from the following products: Nokia N97, Nokia N97 Mini, Nokia N900 and Nokia BH-905!

Get creative!

This just in! Mozart + Beethoven + Ovi = magic!

Published
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niini
on November 3, 2009
in Just For Fun, Music, Ovi by Nokia and Share
. 3 Comments

This week’s Tweet post features not one, but two historical characters! In our first tweet of the week, musical wünderkind Mozart discusses ring tones and Ovi with his long-time homeboy, Joseph Haydn:

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And in the second one, Beethoven in his usual shy manner admits he loves Lady Gaga (and Ovi):

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What do I and Sun Tzu have in common? Why, Ovi Files of course!

Published
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niini
on October 22, 2009
in Files, Just For Fun and Ovi by Nokia
. 12 Comments

Confession time: Files is my favorite Ovi service. It really is. I know you’re supposed to love all your kids equally, but I’m only human! A lesser known fact about me is that I’m actually still in school (HSE all the way, woot!) and Files pretty much got me through the recent writing of my master’s thesis. So I thank you for that, Files.

Anyway, back to the post. Sun Tzu (below) is of course known for writing the very famous book “The Art of War”, which tackled the issues of military strategy and management of conflicts. He was also a heroic general for the ancient Chinese king Helü of Wu who reportedly won many battles with Sun Tzu’s help. But enough about that guy: the real reason I wanted to make a post about Sun Tzu was, of course, so that I could post this:

Click! (SFW, albeit a bit disturbing)

Now, my life is complete.

Oh right, here’s this week’s Tweet!

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Mona Lisa on Ovi (and on sitting for Da Vinci for a very long time)

Published
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niini
on October 19, 2009
in Just For Fun, Mail and Ovi by Nokia
. 11 Comments

This week our Ovi fan girls Virginia Woolf, Marie Antoinette and Sacagawea will be accompanied by another famous historical female who needs no introductions: Lisa del Giocondo, also known as Mona Lisa.

Fun fact about Lisa: the painting made by Leonardo de Vinci of her has been used in more than 300 other paintings and 2000+ advertisements so far! (source) Yikes! The commercials have mostly focused on the aspect of ‘restoring’ or ‘ageing well’, so Mona Lisa has unfortunately had to promote everything from wrinkle creams to shampoo to pizza (ew?). Well, we’re still adding our own variant to the list, but hey, at least we’re acknowledging Lisa as a real person (a person who really likes Ovi, that is)! ;) So, behold the 2457th ad using Mona Lisa!

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As usual, please let us know what you think in the comment section or via e-mail to niini@ovi.com

Whoever said women can’t navigate? Sacagawea sets things straight (with Ovi)

Published
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niini
on October 8, 2009
in Just For Fun, Maps and Ovi by Nokia
. 7 Comments

This week’s Historical Ovi Tweet features one of my all-time favourite historical characters, Sacagawea.

Sacagawea was the Native American (Shoshone) woman who – at least according to mythology – accompanied and, at times, guided the Lewis & Clark Expedition when they travelled from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean between 1804 and 1806. The trip was around 8000 kilometres long (i.e. damn long!). Sacagawea was valuable to the Expedition not only because of her knowledge of Shoshone trails, but also for her translation skills, which proved crucial when Lewis & Clark needed to, for example, trade with the Shoshone for horses.

Sacagawea – who, by the way, made the entire Expedition with her son, Jean-Baptiste, on her back – was considered a valuable member of the party and was even given a full vote in deciding where to spend the winter of 1805-06. It’s no wonder, then, that she has had a river, a lake and a mountain named after her plus an American dollar coin that has her face on it! (Source)

So, with this in mind (and the fact that we really wanted to feature Maps this week), we decided to give this extraordinary woman an honorary Historical Ovi Tweet! Enjoy!

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Edit: Just heard that our friends @ HistoricalTweets.com picked up Sacagawea’s tweet on their blog, check it out!!

Marie Antoinette on Twitter, discussing cake (duh!) and Ovi

Published
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niini
on October 1, 2009
in Contacts, Just For Fun and Ovi by Nokia
. 4 Comments

Our ongoing series of historical characters discussing (and loving!) Ovi by Nokia on Twitter continues with the fabulous Marie Antoinette.

Marie Antoinette is, of course, known for being the ultimate 18th-century party princess (and from the looks of it, carrying around her own weight in hair and clothing). She also has the dubious honor of being regarded as the originator of the phrase “Let them eat cake” (when told that the people of France are starving). Some historians say “PAH!” and claim that she never said such a thing, but that it was merely attributed to her by her contemporaries (read: evil haterz) who wanted to make her look even more indulgent and ignorant in the wake of the French Revolution. Well, I suppose it could be worse. She could, after all, be known for saying something REALLY awful and incorrect like “you can’t use Ovi on your Mac” (since you can!)

Besides, I think anyone who can walk around wearing three feet of hair wrapped into a raccoon’s nest and make it look fierce deserves a shout out. Enjoy Marie’s musings!

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Virginia Woolf has the sads, but still enjoys Ovi Music

Published
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niini
on September 26, 2009
in Just For Fun, Music and Ovi by Nokia
. 1 Comment

Virginia Woolf is one of my favourite authors. Well, actually I just saw that movie about her where Nicole Kidman had a prosthetic nose. Good times.

However, I do know that Virginia was a celebrated novelist, a prominent feminist and overall a fantastically intelligent lady. One of her most memorable quotes include “Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind” from 1929’s “A Room of One’s Own”. You tell ‘em, Gi-Gi! That’s how it’s done! But do you guys know what I always say? Don’t read the following tweet if you’re a rabid fan of Nick Cave’s. Enjoy!

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Let us know what you think about the Historical Ovi Tweets below! Also, kudos to our friends @ HistoricalTweets.com who picked up a couple of our tweets on their blog this week! Check them out!